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And finally, as the great Roger Bacon warned, the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all, for some could use them to evil ends.
We have seen this time and time and time again ... In the wrong hands!
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
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“And if we have to perish In mines and prisons wet, Our cause will ever find renown In future generations yet.”
― The Gulag Archipelago
― The Gulag Archipelago
“We all belong to a group—some group—that has been elevated in comparative status, through no effort of our own.”
― The Gulag Archipelago
― The Gulag Archipelago
“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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